This page describes how to set and get control system values via rudimentary AIDA command line tools. Be sure to set up your aida environment before attempting to use these tools.
Fetching Values
The utility program named "aidaget" takes one mandatory argument (the name of the target); several optional parameters control how it operates. You can specify "-help" as a parameter to see simple options.
aidaget requests the current value for the target you specify and prints out the result in a table format. For example:
Setting Value
The utility program named "aidaset" takes at least two mandatory arguments (the name of the target and the desired value; several optional parameters control how it operates.